It's a downdate.

It does not matter if China or the US or Timbuctoo does this first. The world is fucked whoever gets there.

I would trust my American Overlords over the Chinese overlords ANY day of the week....

Few people are that idealistic....or altruistic.

Most just want money....and that's the goal they will work for no matter what the perceived consequences might be.

And "might be" is the key phrase here.

I mean, unless a humanoid cyborg from the future comes to MY house, cuts and peels his arm skin away to show me the endo skeleton and maybe the chip in his head..I'm not going to believe "maybe" could happen and sacrifice my research and livelihood.

I don't "lighten up" when small minded people are talking about decreasing my quality of life for their selfish benefit. I look down on them, as is appropriate. You're a small little man, and you're also just not funny.

I've lived MANY MANY years before all the environmental crap has been thrown out there...and my quality of life has not suffered one iota due to it.

I think that's impossible for internal combustion engines. They can't meet the emission control standards without intricate computer engine controls.

Fuck the emissions control standards..hell, we're already rolling them back in the US.

They weren't realistic anyway....let users have a choice.

I lived all those years before we had them and feel no ill effects nor is my life any poorer for the experience.

Typical nostalgia story. You must have forgotten how many repairs were made when you were a kid. My 15 year old prius has never failed once. I have only taken it in for routine maintenance: oil changes, AC recharging, bulbs replaced, battery changed every few years. It's never broken down or failed to start or made a funny noise and I live in a frozen hellhole. When I was a kid, this level of reliability was UNHEARD of. My parent's Chevy's were being repaired constantly. We knew the local auto mechanic well. I remember being stranded on the side of the road and getting a ride from a stranger to a pay phone to have our 5yo car towed. I was probably 8 and the lady driving had a bag of sour cream and onion chips open she was eating and that was my first time eating one (and I didn't like it, but was so glad she gave me a snack). It was kinda scary being stuck and seeing my dad stressed out in the days before cellphones on a rural road.

Funny....my family had pretty much the direct opposite experience yours did.

In the 70's and 80's....Let's see. My '78 280Z ran like a top...the only repairs it really ever needed was when I kept wrecking it as a kid. But I changed the oil regularly on it myself, easily....and mechanically ran with very minimal shop needs.

We had a Buick Le Saber early 80s....never really problems with it, I think it had AC work on it once that I recall. We had a '69 Volkswagen bug....pretty much ran till it just one day fell apart in the mid 80's and was then replaced. 280ZX....ran great for years, no shop time that I can recall.

And as for washing machines and dryers....hell the stuff from 30 years ago is STILL usually runing just fine today, it's the new shit that fails in a few months.

My mom has had to replace high end washers once and dryers twice in the past 2 years....

Computers and other crap are just extras to go wrong...I dont need 55 gradients of water or warm air temperatures...just the basics...wash....dry.

If my old trusty units finally give up the ghost....not a lot of simple dryers to find, but I'll spend over $1K to get the simple Speed Queen mechanical washer....just the basics and should last the rest of my life time.

You have a small brain.

And you appear to have little to NO sense of humor.

Lighten up Francis....

Japanese, yes. European, no. Meanwhile, the Japanese work even harder than Americans.

Definitely would not be programming using punch cards. That use of paper is not sustainable. Would just be flicking switches on a control panel, or moving wires on a patchboard.

So, somehow Europe is going to vastly increase its defense capabilities, while also vastly increasing its digital technology sector, while also maintaining generous social programs, and while its economies stagnate, and population is at less than replacement, and it is flooded by immigrants from North Africa with no skills, and yet eliminate its use of fossil fuels and nuclear power.

I've stocked up on popcorn to watch this comedy.

your right to have unnecessary emissions ends where my lungs begin.

Earth is a BIG planet.....I PROMISE I won't drive anywhere near you and your lungs....

;)

In China nothing is brutal since over 30 years.

Unlike USA it is a fine working striving democracy -

LOL...PLEASE tell me you weren't able to actually type that without at least a smile on your face....

If you were actually serious...I have to tell you you're a bit too late for 1984, doublespeak and rewriting history daily

A few months ago I picked up a Mac Mini M4 with 24GB memory....so far that thing has handled a lot of reasonably sized models I've thrown at it...

Strange how this is only a problem in the USA.

What's the problem....if you bought it, it is your vehicle and if you want to make it run better, more efficiently....why not?

Can we get a car like this? Can we get congress to pass a law that says we can have a car like this?

I'd written something similar earlier....make some cars and jeeps this simple, go back to 60's - 70's tech maybe....where you can work on your vehicles on your own on the weekend.

No need for uber tech, no telemetry and over the air updates....

I for one would kill for a modern day CJ7....simple gas engine that is bulletproof....and well, not that much else.....

Hell, give me a '76 TransAm....big engine, no computer needed...maybe just modernize the suspension....